05 April 2008

Superfast Internet

This is incredible stuff, although not available to domestic internet users, it's already in use by academic researchers in several fields.

Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.

“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said.

Me want now. 

Posted by: Stashiu3 at 20:30:09 | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 can haz?
How cool, I love distributed architectures. We're proud members of Folding@home - the protein folding project.

Posted by: sillyblindharper at 06 April 2008@16:56:47 (5+XEL)

2 'course, that probably hasn't saved me from clumsily posting my comment here twice...heh.

I am Lamer, here me whimper...

Posted by: sillyblindharper at 06 April 2008@16:58:06 (5+XEL)

3 No Gentle Lady, it only showed once.  I looked up the Folding@home project.  Very interesting stuff, thank you.

Posted by: Stashiu3 at 06 April 2008@18:16:31 (tarqT)

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